Department of Criminal Justice

Arvind Verma is a Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and adjunct in the India Studies Program at Indiana University, Bloomington (USA). His research interests are in Policing, Criminal Justice Policy Issues, Indian Police, Research Methods, Mathematical Modeling, and Agent Based Modeling. He has served as the Managing Editor of Police Practice and Research: An International Journal, and consultant to the Bureau of Police Research and Development, Government of India.

His recent publications include:

Books titled “She Must Not Die”: Extraordinary Tales of Policing India” {Thompson Reuter}; “Counting Crime: An Exercise in Police Discretion” {Routledge}; Combating Corruption in India {Cambridge Univ. Press}; Policing Muslim Communities: Comparative and International Context" {Springer}; “The New Khaki: The Evolving Nature of Policing in India” {CRC Press}, “Understanding the Police in India” [Lexus] and

Journal articles, “Process Oriented Intervention for Citizen-Friendly and Accountable Policing; The Sociological conception of Corruption: A case study of Karnataka Lokayukta”; “How Real is the Crime Decline in India”; “Policing Non-violent Crowds: Lessons from Kumbh Mela in India”; “Police Manipulation of Crime Reporting: Insider’s Revelations”; “Situational Prevention & Elections in India” “Measuring Performance in India: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis”, “The State and Coercive Power in India”, “Rationalizing Police Beats using Voronoi Tessellations”; “Validating Distance Decay through Agent Based Modeling” and “Assessing the Role of Police in Containing Mob Violence”.

His research has been published in several books and as independent chapters too: “India: The Role of Parliament in Police Governance- Lessons Learned from Asia and Europe”; “Politicization and Legitimacy of Police in India”; “The Police and India’s Maoist Insurgency”; “It is just not Cricket”. His articles have been published in many newspapers and media outlets in India and abroad.

He is also affiliated with IIT Kanpur, India on a visiting position and has established a Center for Criminal Justice Research to promote research and technology applications on Indian police.